Shipyard: Children Playing
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
1900–1902
- Medium
- color monotype
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 20 x 25.3 cm (7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- America, early 20th Century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In 1891, Maurice Prendergast left Boston for Paris, where he studied art for three years at the Atelier Colarossi and the Académie Julian. It was probably in France that he learned the technique of monotype, a medium that he used throughout the second half of the 1890s. This delicate view of children on a beach—possibly Saint-Malo in France—reflects the influence of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
